Beloved is a book that will make you wonder what is this storying talking about! It jumps back and forth and is very confusing, but all in all it is a very good story. The main character of this story is Sethe. Sethe is a woman that escaped slavery and has moved on with her life. She has a daughter named Denver and two boys, but they ran away. But things in the past have been haunting her for years. Now, it has come back to redeem itself. In the beginning of the book, Sethe lives in a house in Cincinnati, but it is filled with spirits that are not good. But, when a old friend from Sweet Home comes back into her life, he scares the spirit away.The spirit is of her little "crawling" daughter that she killed many years ago and was put into prison for. When this old friend, whose name is Paul D., comes back into her life, she is happy and carefree. She starts to enjoy things she never used to and is leaving her house more often. But, this happiness doesn't last forever. One night when Sethe, Paul D and Denver all went to the town carnival for negroes, they had a lot of fun. On their way home, they find a strange girl in their front lawn. They invited her in and asked her her name and she said Beloved. "What might your name be?" asked Paul D. "Beloved," she said, and her voice was so low and rough each one looked at the other two. They heard the voice first-later the name." She drank so many cups of water, Sethe thought she was taken ill with cholera, so Sethe takes her in and she becomes apart of the family. But, Beloved is really her "crawling daughter" that she killed at the hand of a blade many years ago. As the story goes on, Sethe is changing because of the presence of Beloved. Eventually, Paul D leaves her and doesn't come back for awhile. That is when things really start to change. Sethe and Beloved have become too close for comfort in Denver's eyes. Sethe forgets all about Denver and her attention is more focused on Beloved. Sethe's energy is draining from Beloved's presence and Denver wants to relieve her mother from the grip Beloved has on her mother. The only way to destroy this ghost is in the present. So, Denver looks for work to help and take care of her mother. Then her employer gathers 30 or so women to go and pray for the house and mainly Sethe. While these women are walking up, Denver is sitting on her front step and when they get close enough, Denver waved and a few waved back. "Denver sat back down wondering what was going on. A woman dropped to her knees. Half of the others did likewise. Denver saw lowered heads, but could not hear the lead prayer-only the earnest syllables of agreement that backed it: Yes, yes yes, oh yes. Hear me. Hear me. Do it, Maker, do it. Yes. Among those not on their knees, who stood holding I24 in a fixed glare, was Ella, trying to see through the walls, behind the door, to what was really in there. Instantly the kneelers and the standers joined her. They stopped praying and took a step back to the beginning. When the women assembled outside I24, Sethe was breaking a lump of ice into chunks. Beloved was sprawled on the bed in the keeping room, a salt rock in her hand. Together they sttod in the doorway. The singing women recognized Sethe at once and suprised themselves buy their absence of fear when they saw what stood next to her. The devil-child was clever, they thought. And beautiful. It had taken the shape of a pregnant woman, naked and smiling in the heat of the afternoon sun. Thunderblack and glistening, she stood on long legs, herbelly big and tight. Vines of hair twisted all over her head. Jesus. Her smile was dazzling. Standing alone on the porch, Beloved is smiling. But now her hand is empty. Sethe is running away from her, running, and shefeels the emptiness in the hand Sethe has been holding. Now she is running into the faces of the people out there, joining them and leaving Beloved behind. Alone. Again. Then Denver, running too." This represents the grip Beloved had on Sethe loosening ever so slightly and finally leaving it all together. Sethe is now free from this ghost and ends up at I 24 and Paul D comes back. She has changed so much and is now rfee from the ghost that haunted her forever. this book was about how the past is always there, watching you, and waiting to strike to make you remember what you did wrong in life and how it will never let you forget it.
Beloved is a book that will make you wonder what is this storying talking about! It jumps back and forth and is very confusing, but all in all it is a very good story. The main character of this story is Sethe. Sethe is a woman that escaped slavery and has moved on with her life. She has a daughter named Denver and two boys, but they ran away. But things in the past have been haunting her for years. Now, it has come back to redeem itself. In the beginning of the book, Sethe lives in a house in Cincinnati, but it is filled with spirits that are not good. But, when a old friend from Sweet Home comes back into her life, he scares the spirit away.The spirit is of her little "crawling" daughter that she killed many years ago and was put into prison for. When this old friend, whose name is Paul D., comes back into her life, she is happy and carefree. She starts to enjoy things she never used to and is leaving her house more often. But, this happiness doesn't last forever. One night when Sethe, Paul D and Denver all went to the town carnival for negroes, they had a lot of fun. On their way home, they find a strange girl in their front lawn. They invited her in and asked her her name and she said Beloved. "What might your name be?" asked Paul D. "Beloved," she said, and her voice was so low and rough each one looked at the other two. They heard the voice first-later the name." She drank so many cups of water, Sethe thought she was taken ill with cholera, so Sethe takes her in and she becomes apart of the family. But, Beloved is really her "crawling daughter" that she killed at the hand of a blade many years ago. As the story goes on, Sethe is changing because of the presence of Beloved. Eventually, Paul D leaves her and doesn't come back for awhile. That is when things really start to change. Sethe and Beloved have become too close for comfort in Denver's eyes. Sethe forgets all about Denver and her attention is more focused on Beloved. Sethe's energy is draining from Beloved's presence and Denver wants to relieve her mother from the grip Beloved has on her mother. The only way to destroy this ghost is in the present. So, Denver looks for work to help and take care of her mother. Then her employer gathers 30 or so women to go and pray for the house and mainly Sethe. While these women are walking up, Denver is sitting on her front step and when they get close enough, Denver waved and a few waved back. "Denver sat back down wondering what was going on. A woman dropped to her knees. Half of the others did likewise. Denver saw lowered heads, but could not hear the lead prayer-only the earnest syllables of agreement that backed it: Yes, yes yes, oh yes. Hear me. Hear me. Do it, Maker, do it. Yes. Among those not on their knees, who stood holding I24 in a fixed glare, was Ella, trying to see through the walls, behind the door, to what was really in there. Instantly the kneelers and the standers joined her. They stopped praying and took a step back to the beginning. When the women assembled outside I24, Sethe was breaking a lump of ice into chunks. Beloved was sprawled on the bed in the keeping room, a salt rock in her hand. Together they sttod in the doorway. The singing women recognized Sethe at once and suprised themselves buy their absence of fear when they saw what stood next to her. The devil-child was clever, they thought. And beautiful. It had taken the shape of a pregnant woman, naked and smiling in the heat of the afternoon sun. Thunderblack and glistening, she stood on long legs, herbelly big and tight. Vines of hair twisted all over her head. Jesus. Her smile was dazzling. Standing alone on the porch, Beloved is smiling. But now her hand is empty. Sethe is running away from her, running, and shefeels the emptiness in the hand Sethe has been holding. Now she is running into the faces of the people out there, joining them and leaving Beloved behind. Alone. Again. Then Denver, running too." This represents the grip Beloved had on Sethe loosening ever so slightly and finally leaving it all together. Sethe is now free from this ghost and ends up at I 24 and Paul D comes back. She has changed so much and is now rfee from the ghost that haunted her forever. this book was about how the past is always there, watching you, and waiting to strike to make you remember what you did wrong in life and how it will never let you forget it.